Clinical practice issues arise in organizational settings on a regular basis. Hospital leadership and staff can implement evidence-based practice changes for staff on a global level to improve client outcomes. The evidence-based practice process helps to facilitate improving practice related issues.
Imagine that you are on an evidence-based practice committee in the hospital organization. Review the case study below.
Case: A long-term care facility for geriatric clients is seeing an increase in the number of pressure injury related wounds with their clients. The unit nurse manager is concerned and addresses the issue with nursing and hospital leadership. The evidence-based practice committee meets weekly to discuss practice related issues within the facility and strategizes to implement quality improvement through evidence-based care. The committee would like to pilot implementing clinical practice guideline techniques to improve pressure injury wound care.
Tasks
Conduct a library search to identify a clinical practice guideline to improve the practice related issue: pressure ulcer wound management.
Create an essay that describes the clinical practice guideline intervention. Describe how to promote and adopt this new intervention into clinical practice using evidence-based methods.
Answer the following questions in the essay:
Discuss the search methods used to identity the nursing intervention.
Discuss the intervention and quality of its use in clinical practice to support your practice change.
What are potential barriers to implement the practice change?
How would you overcome barriers in implementing the practice change?
What would you suggest with respect to rolling out the practice change across the facility? Who would need to be involved in supporting the effort?
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